Developing Polyionic Biocomposite Materials through Natural Fiber Welding. (8th September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Durkin, David P.; Hoffman, Christian E.; Cosby, Tyler; Aiello, Ashlee; Mcfarland, Julia A.; De Long, Hugh C.; Woodcock, Jeremiah W.; Trulove, Paul C.
• Is Part Of: ECS transactions. Volume 98:Number 10(2020)
• Page Start: 99
• Page End: 113
• Publication Date: 2020-09-08
• Subjects: Electrochemistry -- Periodicals; Electrochemistry; Periodicals; Electronic journals; Electronic journal; 541.37
• DOI: 10.1149/09810.0099ecst
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1938-5862

Abstract

Abstract : This study presents our progress on using imidazolium-based polymerizable ionic liquids (Poly-ILs) in the NFW process to prepare polyionic biocomposites. Two novel Poly-ILs containing the 1-alkyl-3-vinylimidazolium cation and an alkylphosphonate anion were synthesized and subsequently characterized using NMR. Each Poly-IL was evaluated for its ability to (i) polymerize and (ii) solubilize a biopolymer (cellulose) matrix, and optimized parameters yielded polyionic biocomposite materials whose physicochemical properties were evaluated using ATR-FTIR, RAMAN, and SEM.